June 5, 2026
(RNS) – “It’s a little surprising, but I don’t think it’s unexpected,” he told Religion News Service this week. “The Vatican has been cultivating relationships with the tech community for about 10 years.” Green would know. As a leading tech … Read More
June 5, 2026
(NYT) – Mr. Epstein said that if he died, his sperm should be left in the control of his estate. Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019, but his genetic material may live on. Emails and records in the Epstein files released … Read More
June 2, 2026
(The Guardian) – The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-husband was jailed for doing Tie and … Read More
May 28, 2026
(ABC News) – In place of the quest to create artificial intelligences that can surpass human cognition and drive a technological revolution, Leo has written a hymn to the grandeur of human limitation. His dire assessment of the dehumanising “technocratic … Read More
May 27, 2026
(Wired) – In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players. An algorithm decides what we see, another filters what we read, and still others enter into the processes that govern work, information, … Read More
May 27, 2026
(Vatican News) – Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ He appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of … Read More
May 27, 2026
(The New Atlantis) – Since the beginning of his papacy a year ago, Pope Leo XIV has held out the promise of offering the world some much-needed wisdom on living well with technology. His very choice of name hearkened back … Read More
May 8, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does. Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot. According to his recent essay for … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a … Read More
April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79. … Read More
April 1, 2026
(The Atlantic) – “I appreciate the designation but sort of reject it, only because of my own philosophical stance, which is that it’s very hard to master the diagnostic process,” Dhaliwal told me when I talked with him for my … Read More
March 10, 2026
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator will leave the agency at the end of April, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: Vinay Prasad, director of FDA’s Center for … Read More
February 17, 2026
(New York Times) – Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions in the near term for artificial intelligence. Are the lords of artificial intelligence on the side of the human race? That’s the core question I had … Read More
February 11, 2026
(Forbes)- An Anthropic staffer who led a team researching AI safety departed the company Monday, darkly warning both of a world “in peril” and the difficulty in being able to let “our values govern our actions”—without any elaboration—in a public … Read More
January 30, 2026
(New York Times) – As an employee with the N.S.A., he claimed he was exposed to a direct-energy device that led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at age 45. Michael Beck, the first of scores of federal workers to … Read More
January 27, 2026
(New York Times) – Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a minimally invasive way. It has saved millions of lives. Six-plus decades after its invention, the Fogarty … Read More
January 26, 2026
(CNN) – Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from forming serious emotional bonds with their … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries. For creating the world’s first genetically edited babies, He Jiankui has … Read More
January 2, 2026
(LA Times) – After decades of public and self-imposed shame, Oprah credits a GLP-1 drug with silencing “food noise” — the constant mental obsession about food. She now views obesity as a disease that causes overeating, a realization that transformed … Read More
January 2, 2026
(NYT) – After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an operation on the edge of what’s possible. After breakfast, she took the A train to NewYork-Presbyterian … Read More
December 31, 2025
(AP) – Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. She was 35. Schlossberg, daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, … Read More
December 24, 2025
(WSJ) – Telegram founder Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who want to use his donated sperm, and has promised his offspring a share of his fortune The Russian-born CEO said in his post in July 2024 that … Read More
December 5, 2025
(The Michigan Daily) – In the current issue of Medicine at Michigan, Michigan Medicine celebrates 175 alumni and faculty who have made the University of Michigan world-renowned as the “leaders and best.” The editors “looked for clinicians and researchers who … Read More
December 1, 2025
(Rolling Stone) – As the murder suspect’s legal battle continues, some fans swoon online while activist groups make him the face of health care and social-justice reform IN THE WORLD OF MANGIONE SUPPORTERS, there are different factions. There are those … Read More
December 1, 2025
(People via MSN) – The man who founded Dignitas — a non-profit that provides physician-assisted suicide — has died. He was 92. Ludwig Minelli died “self-determinedly by voluntary assisted dying” at one of his own facilities on Saturday, Nov. 29, … Read More
